Katharine Viner

Journalist, Author

1971 –

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Who is Katharine Viner?

Katharine Viner is a British journalist and playwright who is currently deputy editor of The Guardian. She has headed The Guardian's web operations in Australia, and will move to New York in summer 2014 to take up responsibility for her newspaper's online presence there.

Raised in Yorkshire, the daughter of teachers, Viner was educated at Ripon Grammar School and read English at the University of Oxford. Just before her finals, Viner won a competition organised by The Guardian's women's page and was advised to pursue a career in journalism.

After periods on Cosmopolitan and The Sunday Times Magazine, Viner joined The Guardian in 1997, at first working on the women's page, and became editor of the Saturday Weekend supplement in 1998. She was made features editor in 2006 and deputy editor in 2008 at the same time as Ian Katz.

She is best known for My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play she compiled with actor Alan Rickman from the writings and emails of Rachel Corrie, an American activist killed in Rafah, Gaza in 2003. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 2005.

In January 2013, Viner's relocation to Sydney to supervise a new Guardian digital edition in Australia was announced; this venture was launched in May 2013. In the summer of 2014, Viner will move to New York and become the new head of The Guardian's American website in succession to Janine Gibson. Viner will remain deputy editor of Guardian News & Media.

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Born
1971
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • University of Oxford

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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